![]() In 2015, Frankfurt was home to 1,909 ultra high-net-worth individuals, the sixth-highest number of any city. ![]() A quarter of the population consists of foreign nationals, including many expatriates. Frankfurt is culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse, with half of its population, and a majority of its young people, having a migrant background. It has been part of the state of Hesse since 1945. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhenish Franconian dialect area.įrankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire, as a site of Imperial coronations it lost its sovereignty upon the collapse of the empire in 1806, regained it in 1815 and then lost it again in 1866, when it was annexed (though neutral) by the Kingdom of Prussia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt's central business district lies about 90 km (56 mi) northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim in Lower Franconia. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region and the fourth biggest Metropolitan Region by GDP in the European Union. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake Main, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany, and it is the only city in the country rated as an " alpha world city" according to GaWC. " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main ( German: ⓘ Hessian: Frangford am Maa, pronounced lit.
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